Fixed an inverted race condition when installing with MAKEOPTS="-j1" jer found this: install-root_sbinPROGRAMS is called from install-data-am but install-exec-hook is called from install-exec-am So moving the failing ln call into install-data-hook for now... --- cifs-utils-6.12/Makefile.am +++ cifs-utils-6.12/Makefile.am @@ -117,10 +117,8 @@ SUBDIRS = contrib -install-exec-hook: install-sbinPROGRAMS +install-data-hook: install-sbinPROGRAMS (cd $(DESTDIR)$(ROOTSBINDIR) && ln -sf mount.cifs mount.smb3) - -install-data-hook: if CONFIG_MAN ( cd $(DESTDIR)$(man8dir) && ln -sf mount.cifs.8 mount.smb3.8) endif